The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10

her store is 20 ~ 50 feet aud good height
she proposes - raise it higher.
raAG --Oh Friday last Mr.. John GLADDEN.
well known resident of Seneca, was NOV
ing Mr., and Mrs, Buland and their three
year old daughter to Strcator, together Will
their household effects, in n hay rack on {
wagon. When about to cross the track o.
the c, Il. & O. railroad, in the latter city
he discovered train coming and another
backing up towards the street. lie stopped,
but the nagman of the railroad company
who should be supposed to know his bust
ness, signaled him to come on. He did 80
and had barely got his horses over and the
wagon when an engine Of one Of the trains
struck the rack at the rear and tore of one
corner He and his friends and the team
barely escaped with their lives, owing to the
incompetoncy Of the il1gman.
EYES Miss Mary Metzger, daughter OF
Robert Mctzscr, Of this city, pretty and
am;aLlc girl, aged 10 years, submitted to a
dangerous and delicate operation on Sotur.
day last When a child she had severe nj.
tack Of measles, and in consequence lest the
light Of her left eye. That organ had grad.
ually become n hileous dcformily, spelling
her otherwise pretty face, and besides, late.
ly it had become painful and threatened to
harm the other eye by what the medical fra
ternity call "sympathetio affection \
prominent occulst removed tho diseased
eye She stood the painful operation like n
little heroine, and has since escaped any Sc
rous result.
SuocKiHG.-Ru Rudolph Shut, Of Grand Rap.
ids, during business hours, cut and shocked,
with 100 hills in each shock, l05 shocks of
corn. Beat ii who can Besides he is only
Is years old At this rate, what might he
DO when ne gets his full growth?
Mo.-"Uncle" Joe Watts and wife 60 to
Missouri on Wednesday of next week, to
visit their son James, who is an extensive
stock breeder in that region. They have
made calculations for months trip.
CoDy-Mr. John Holmes, of Bucl; Creek
the father of our Wash Holmes, the dispenser
of fluid cxhilra,ion, exhibited in this city
last Saturday specimens Of as fine corn as
any farmer need to wish for lie has forty
acres of it, good for 50 bushels to al acre
lis ncighJors, however, are not so well
fixed.
BRuGEs.--Mr. Alex. Bruce, Of Marseiilcs
is up to his eyes in bridge business. He has
four of these structures in various stages Of
progress, viz. one at In Sale across the
Illinois river, for the III. Valley and North
crn, (the new Sircator road y one Mt Chilli
co,he n third across Spoon river, and a
fourth over the DcMonie, the last three for
the Santa Fe road.
BEACn-Mayor Beach, of Morris re.
turned home on Saturday last, from an ex-
tended trip through the Eastern States, in
Guiding some time in New York city. Mr.
Beach said to the Morris Independent man,
that the presidential prospects are being
extensively discussed in political circles, and
Cleveland is the unanimous choice of the
Democrats for President, while General
Blacks nomination seems to be an assured
fact for the vice presidency. With his knowl-
edge gained from well.intormed men in the
East, Mr.. Beach concludes that Cleveland
and Black, will make an invincible ticket. .
1t would, indeed, be hard problem to name
ticket that would have greater power with
the great mass Of the democracy, and, we
believe, with the mass of voters.
WELcH.-La Sale Repubhcan "Dr. WV
WEIGH and wife, Of Galesburg, have been
the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. n. }. Weller, dur
ing the week. The doctor came to La Sale
about forty years ago, when there was not
great expectations" The wielder of ore of
the abest quilts that ever graced the State,
the amount of matter he contributed to the
papers setting forth the superior advantages
of this locality would fill big volumes. He
was one of the best boosters La Sale had in
those days, but, like many others, he got
tired of waiting to see the salvation and
glory of the Lord in the shape of boom,
and looked for greener fields and pastures
new lie went through the war as surgeon
Of the Fifty.third Illinois Volunteers, and
FIVE or six years after its close he emigrated
TO Saint Rest near Lee Centre, where he
remained few years and then moved to
Wataga and thence TO Galesburg. His old
friends here would he pleased to have him
complete the circle by swinging around to
old La Sale again to spend the evening of
his days where the boom seed he so faith
fully planted in the long ago, now seems to
be vigorously sprouting and bids fair to bios
som out in great central metropolis of a
hundred thousand happy and prosperous
people, before it shall be time for the good
doctor to Join his fathers in the beyond
The best on eartn can truly he said Of